This monograph reviews the findings of four studies conducted to determine the effects of operational deployments on the U.S. As a result of this dilemma, the decision was made to activate units and personnel of the Army National Guard and Army Reserve to support on-going deployments.

It became apparent that the active Army required assistance with these additional missions or risk a degradation of its unit readiness and morale. Haiti, Somalia, Bosnia, and Kosovo were added to the active Army’s already crowded plate that included the Multinational Force and Observes in the Sinai Peninsula and Operation Southern Watch in Southwest Asia.

As the draw down of military forces continued the number of operational deployments increased for the active Army. Army had been reduced from its late 1980s size of eighteen combat divisions to only ten combat divisions. Following the end of Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm the United States’ military began a dramatic down sizing of its active and reserve forces. It will challenge the belief that the current use of the Army Reserve Component in peace time operational deployments is having a negative effect on its attrition rate. The Effect of Operational Deployments on Army Reserve Component Attrition Rates and Its Strategic Implications – This monograph will assess the effects of operational deployments on Army Reserve Component attrition rate and its strategic implications for the U.S.

Operation Southern Watch was an operation conducted by Joint Task Force Southwest Asia (JTF-SWA) with the mission of monitoring and controlling airspace south of the 32nd Parallel (extended to the 33rd Parallel in 1996) in Iraq, following the 1991 Gulf War until the 2003 invasion of Iraq.Ī Report Bibliography, Keyword: “Operation Southern Watch” from the DTIC (Word Document ) – Responsive documents from a request I filed from the DIA.

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